Heather Swenson is a artist working with silkscreen printmaking from Rochester, New York. In this interview Clare talks to Heather printmaking, the art scene in Rochester, and Heather’s studio practice. I first saw your work at Graphic Arts Workshop (GAW) in San Francisco as a part of a print exchange show. Since I make my…
The first time I met Yulia, I was still a student at UC Berkeley and Yulia was an artist in residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts. I remember touring her studio in admiration and wide-eyed wonder. She was living the artist journey that I dreamed of, so I picked up her business card…
Scott Andrew and I met up this March near his home in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill. Scott is a multimedia artist, whose solo work dances across immersive videos, installations, sculptures, and performances to “evoke a childlike yearning for play.” Scott is also a primary collaborator and co-founder of the Institute for New Feeling, “a research clinic committed…
Anya Weitzman and I met up over coffee and donuts in Pittsburgh, during her moving week this past April. Anya is a sculptor, jewelry designer, metalsmith, and founder of Mod Evil Studio. Influenced by anthropology and gender studies, Anya creates pieces that give the wearer a deep sense of their own power, following her interest in…
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Venison Magazine, my friend and colleague, Amber Imrie-Situnayake spent the majority of this past October in a shipping container. As an artist-in-residence at NDSM Treehouse in Amsterdam, she designed and installed a series of thread installations that were site-specific to one of the art city’s many shipping containers nested in a shipbuilding yard….
Joshua Hagler explores how to give a shit about contemporary art in this ongoing series. “I never believed in any of it,” Camilla says. “I never believed in God. I never had that transformative spiritual experience that gives [other religious people] that sense of God they describe.” We sit with tea and talk in her studio, Camilla…
There is enigmatic simplicity, from the design of your website to your artwork. Tell me a bit about yourself – did you grow up with a lot of exposure to contemporary art? Oh not at all. Truthfully, I didn’t learn a lot about contemporary art until I was in graduate school. I grew up in…
An NCECA 2017 Exhibition at Antler Gallery Neo Cali Clay Collective Opening Reception: Thursday, March 23rd 5pm-9pm Antler Gallery. 2728 NE Alberta St. Portland, OR. This month will see the NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) 2017 conference visit Portland and Antler Gallery is honored to have been selected as an official…
I found Alice on Instagram, searching through #fiberart, I found her mandalas and I knew there was so much behind them, I wanted to learn more about the person making them: who is she, how did she know to produce them, and what might she teach us? Alice was kind enough to meet me for…
A boy in red pajamas, perhaps eight years old, walks quietly and with purpose to an area in the woods where he is partially overlapped by a moss-covered tree, bending a vine or a limb out of his way as he passes. What must be morning light coruscates slowly up the tree and along the…
